The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a leading voice for professionalism in the early-stage investing community, Seraf provides extensive materials on all aspects of early stage investing. If you haven’t seen these pieces yet, we know you will enjoy checking them out!

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This critical investment will enable Apptronik to ramp up the production of its groundbreaking humanoid robot, Apollo, and accelerate the development of next-generation robots tailored for a wide range of industries. The investment also supports the companys commitment to creating human-centered robots.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

GHI Fund President Bill Taranto has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry and has 15 years of experience in healthcare investing. In addition to his venture investing knowledge, Bill has decades of management operations experience. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Today, someone in the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. The surge of hedge fund capital into Series C-E investing boosted median pre-money valuations 150% in 2021. But by how much?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Winter 2022 batch is underway, and we’re excited to announce that we’re now accepting applications for Summer 2022. We will invest a total of $500,000 in every company accepted into the batch as part of our new standard deal. Apply early for the YC Summer 2022 batch here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-15 October 2022. The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. What is the Needs and Leads Speed Networking event?

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2022

The Results To-Date: Meati went live with its first DTC offering in March 2022, which sold out in 2.5 The company’s cutlets made their retail debut in Sprouts in July 2022, and products are currently on the menu in 11 restaurants, including Colorado-based fried chicken chain, Birdcall. For more on Meati, visit meati.com.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. link] A quick thread 1/ — ReFi DAO #GR15 (@ReFiDAOist) September 10, 2022. USV is invested in the Toucan Protocol which is building the web3 infrastructure to bring carbon offsets on-chain and to allow them to be traded/invested/etc using DeFi protocols.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I. With one click of a smartphone’s camera, building owners and service providers gain much-needed insight in 50 to 80% less time and cash invested.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Register Malaysia’s private equity and venture capital funding saw a significant increase in 2022, according to a report released by the Securities Commission Malaysia. billion) in 2022, compared to $3.35 billion) for VC by the end of 2022. billion) for VC by the end of 2022. billion (MYR16.08 billion (MYR14.83

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In 2022, anime games accounted for 20% of total mobile game spend at $17B , not inclusive of PC/console spend. Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. 69% of Gen Z watch anime and half of Netflix’s 222M subscribers watched anime in 2021, with total anime watch time growing 20% annually.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

In 2022, as LLMs took the world by storm, the market was trying to navigate the right way to build solutions on top of the many models becoming available. Today, we are excited to announce we’ve led their Series A. Trey kept the team focused and spent months obsessing over novel applications of new open source models.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As this year is expected to be record-breaking in terms of data breaches, data safety should be a top priority for businesses as we head into 2022. Growth of zero trust will undoubtedly occur in 2022. Emphasis on security as a return on investment . The post 5 Data Safety Trends for 2022 appeared first on StartupNation.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. Obviously the funding environment has changed considerably in 2022 but as early-stage investors our daily jobs stay largely unchanged. The answer is: not much.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EU will invest €13.5 In 2022, Ukrainian companies started going global. According to the statistics on the first 10 months of 2022, Ukraine’s export of IT services grew by 9.9% The experts are predicting the Ukrainian economy will bounce back and that the investment made today will bring dividends for years to come.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Register The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (headed by Minister Park Bo-gyun) conducted an investment briefing on July 24, focused on attracting investment from the UAE sovereign wealth fund for content industries, including games , dramas, and webtoons.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Take crypto, for instance.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

Those values, on a schedule of investments we publish to our investors every quarter, flow through to our financial statements and capital accounts and establish how much an interest in our partnerships are worth at that time. If you might lose money on an investment, it is always best to signal that ahead of time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. billion in 2022, down 46% compared with 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. In the U.S.,

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Revolution

MAY 2, 2022

Originally published in The Hill on April 23, 2022 America faces a host of pressing economic challenges today?—?but And both parties agreed that a primary barrier were laws written during the Great Depression which served to prevent a broad range of investors from investing in high-growth companies. The America COMPETES Act of 2022?—?which

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2022

marked the upside case for most VC software and infrastructure investment memos. 2022 Return Multiple by Round. The silver lining: the median public software company in 2022 is three times as valuable as in 2015, which suggests valuations should settle higher than that era. From 2007 to 2016, $1.5b 2015 Return Multiple by Round.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can’t find anyone to invest in them. That is a failure of the system. Leave it at that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In the 2022 GSEA Global Finals , Arnold Shoko won the Together We Grow Award for his collaborative spirit. The 2022/23 GSEA competition season is open. You are the 2022 GSEA Together We Grow winner. Because of that money, other investors are more willing to invest in our company. We asked Arnold about his GSEA experience.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 9, 2024

When we first met Yellow’s founder, CEO Mandeep Waraich in early 2022, we were astounded by his infectious energy and drive to tackle this challenge. This could radically reduce the cost and skill barriers to high-quality character creation while enabling far greater scale, variety, and personalization.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. New Q2 2022 data from CB Insights and PitchBook lay bare fintech’s retreat. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By I approached several EO women colleagues and nCourage Investment Group was born. I also love seeing women introduced to the world of early-stage investing.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner of East Ventures, expressed his satisfaction with the SV Investment partnership.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. Since its launch in October 2021, the company has been actively executing multiple investments, demonstrating its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship. The firm established 1Billion Accel in 2022, a subsidiary that manages angel funds in Korea.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Series A funding round was led by Healthworx , the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst , further solidifying Culina Healths unique approach to addressing one of the countrys most pressing public health issues.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

And with lockdowns now a thing of the past, we predict travel to also increase from 2022 levels which is a great sign for the industry and for business. Travel is going to be one of the biggest investments companies will make, and it will be well worth it. David Fastuca, EO Melbourne, CMO and co-founder, Locomote.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” But rest assured valuations get reset. It’s just math.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. counterpart in structure and scope.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

Philanthropy is an incredibly rewarding way to invest in the change you want to see in the world. In our case, that is change we want to see in our home, New York City, and we are committed to investing in programs that leverage community, knowledge, and culture to drive positive change for New York City.

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